The Arizona sentinel., 1887-01-29
LOCAL NOTES.
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 The electric lights are again in full blast
 Ex-SheriE Tyner is home again from Lo
 Angeles.
 Ed. Mayes, of Antelope valley, was il town Monday.
 We learn of several more transfers o town property this week.
 D1ED.-In Yuma, Jan. 25th, 1887, B. s. Robinson, aged 2 years.
 Judge Purdy made business visit to Los Angeles the first of the week,
 The railroad ice-house is being filed with ice, several carloads having already been stored therein.
 MT. E. D. Chappell and Mir. Gamble, of Antelope valley, paid this office pleasant visit last Saturday.
 W. H. Dickinson, new locator on lands en the Gila near Sentinel, was in town a lew days this week.
 Irrigate less and cultivate more. is the true to be observed, if we would make a success of fruit raising.
 Walter Miller returned home to Norton s Landing Monday. Walter is an old timer in Yuma and he numbers his friends down E .- - Vlie soVre.
 Geo. Thurlow and Henry Goldwater ar rived from Los Angeles Monday night, look ing hale, hearty and happy after their three or four days visit.
 Judge Samuel Purdy, of Yuma, Arizona. is in the city, where he has many friends who, of course, are delighted to see him. Los Angeles Herald.
 Mai. Geo. W. RAilton, formerly agent of the Southern Pacific at this place has re ceived the appointment as agent of the 4. & P. at Sacramento.
 The Southern Pacific Hotel is crowded with guests strangers who are here to spy out the land, to find homes in this land of perpetual sunshine and great possibilities.
 The Chinese New Year was celebrated in Yuma by the Celestial population, after the most approved fashion. Bombs and fire crackers kept up a continual racket early
 W. ", Hackett. one of the owners of the Hackett canal above Texas Hill, was in town Monday. He says they will have the water in the canal in time for this seasons crops,
 Pascal Huaras was up before his Honor, Judge Burr. on Monday for disturbing the peace He was offered the choice of 80 or thirty days in the cooler, and chose the latter.
 We are truly glad to note that steps are being taken to extend the sewer from the prison to a point some distance below town. This ought to have been done in the first 
 Messrs McCune, Goldman and A. c. Baker, of Phoenix, were in Yuma couple of days this week. They came down to look after the embezzled property, which they recovered.
 From the Prescott Gazette we learn that Patrick Donahue, who was taken to the lsvlum the first part of last week by Sheriff Nugent, escaped from that institution on Friday of last week.
 Over three thousand acres of land has been located in Antelope valley during the past week. Several locators are men of means and will put valuable improvements thereon immediately.
 The M sses Apples arrived from Tucson Friday night and were the guests of Supt. 3ates until Sunday morning when they left or Los Angeles where they will reside with heir father and brother.
 A resolution has passed the Legislature the appointment of chaplain or the prison. We suggest Rev. NIT. Ellis f Yuma for the position. He has served n that capacity for the past year gratuit- rsly.
 Tomato vines are yet green, growing, looming and bearing fruit in Yuma. We ave no frost to record since Nov. 23d, and hen only slight one, Eternal mildness eems to reign supreme throughout southern Arizona. Yuma is full of strangers, some seeking md, others seeking climate, and yet others eeking both land and climate, all of which lay be found in this county in abundance